Support vector machines (SVMs) are becoming popular in a wide variety of biological applications. But, what exactly are SVMs and how do they work? And what are their most promising applications in the life sciences?
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The author thanks the support from NSF award IIS-0093302
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William S. Noble is in the Departments of Genome Sciences and of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, 1705 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA. noble@gs.washington.edu
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